Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters

This is the couple's first business together. Deborah used to own a salon in town a few years ago, Flanagan said. And he still draws a paycheck from the corporate world, working in sales and marketing.

The Flanagans bought what used to be a drive-through liquor store at 214 Fifth Ave. to put in the coffee shop. He took out the drive-through part, he said, because he wants the shop to be a gathering place for people. And what used to be the driveway on the side of the building will eventually be turned into an outdoor patio area, he said, with a stage that could feature family entertainment occasionally.

He said inside the shop, they have reserved some space where locally made products -- baked goods, smoked meats, or jams and jellies, for example -- will be featured.

The town of Frederick provided the Flanagans with a faade improvement grant that he took advantage of to put some extra touches on his building, including a neon sign and an awning. He told the Times-Call in November that those are things he would have put up anyway but the grant allowed him to do it much sooner. He applauded the town for launching the program and trying to inject vitality into the downtown.

He and some other merchants are also in discussions to put together a downtown business association, Flanagan said, and the town has been supportive of that idea.

Another important part of his business is the coffee roasting side of things. His is a coffee shop where all of the beans are roasted in-house.

"I don't know what the percentage is but it's unique -- and it's a big advantage to us," Flanagan said.

Aside from being able to offer customers their very fresh coffee, Flanagan said he'll soon be selling Carbon Valley Coffee wholesale to another coffee shop and that a restaurant in Frederick is already a wholesale customer.

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